Are the icons of rhn-applet free??

[Jaap Haitsma]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 08:21:30AM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> 
>>Jaap Haitsma wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I see in the license of rhn-applet that it is licensed under the GPL.
>>>Does that mean that the icons are also under the GPL. I'd like to use 
>>>them in another app.
>>
>>Would somebody of redhat be so kind to answer my question?
> 
> 
>   The rhn-applet is released under the GPL.
> So you are free to reuse the icons it contains, i.e.
>   applet-busy.png
>   applet-critical-blank.png
>   applet-okay.png
>   applet-error.png
>   applet-disconnect.png
> in a GPL application at least.
> However it would be good to avoid any confusion between the rhn_applet and
> any other kind of similar application. What do you have in mind exactly ?
> 
I proposed them to the maintainer (Daniel Burrows) of apt-watch, which 
is quite similar to the rhn-applet. I read in the changelog that he 
would like to change his current icons to more professional looking ones.

He replied and asked me if the icons are free. That's why I posted the 
question.

I can see the concern that there can be some confusion, but I also see 
an advantage for linux as whole that a similar looking applet does a 
similar thing. Now I come to think of it, it's maybe just like bluecurve 
trying to unite KDE and Gnome.

Jaap



Jaap